Other important C3 crops, such as wheat, sweet potatoes and cassava, could also benefit.
Crops, such as wheat, corn, and especially soy, have come to occupy land that was once destined to cattle grazing.
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Under the deal with America, deep cuts in tariffs will by made by 2004, to just 14.5% for several bulk commodities such as wheat and maize.
The deluge has caused extensive damage to key crops - such as wheat, cotton and sugar cane - in a country where agriculture is an economic lynch-pin.
And the feedstock, or food for the microbes, can be any type of agricultural product, from sugar cane to waste such as wheat straw and wood chips.
Farmers of a few select crops such as wheat or maize can avoid almost all risk using the government's overlapping system of subsidised insurance, loans and payments.
An OECD report suggests that there is little difference in volatility between exchange-traded agricultural commodities (such as wheat and corn) and non-exchange-traded ones (such as apples and onions).
Thanks to these subsidies and regulations, demand for maize and vegetable oils (on which biodiesel is based) has exploded and these crops have displaced others, such as wheat.
Over the past few years, it has convened a series of meetings that brought together leading experts for each of the main food crops, such as wheat, rice, lentils and maize.
Corn futures prices on the Chicago exchange have risen about 50 percent since mid-June, hitting all-time record levels last month, and other grains such as wheat and soybeans are also sharply higher.
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For example, in order to maintain the highest level of genetic purity, distinct varieties of self-pollinated crops such as wheat, rice, soybeans and barley need to be separated by at least 60 feet.
India's government usually increases assured prices paid to farmers each year for key staples such as wheat, rice and lentils, aiming to support their incomes and ensure that they don't switch to other less important crops.
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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Although the process to produce ethanol from switchgrass was more complex than using food crops such as wheat or corn, the so-called "second generation" biofuel could produce much higher energy yields per tonne because it utilised the whole plant rather than just the seeds.
It is designed to imitate the futures market in commodities such as corn, wheat and steel.
The ship contains food items such as corn, wheat, soybean flour, vegetable oil and lentils.
He has done this for a few commodities, such as rice, wheat flour, soyabeans and sugar.
Other commodities such as copper, wheat and cotton have also taken sizable haircuts over the past two weeks.
Outside of the cities, farm-related growth jumped 13% as production of goods such as beef and wheat started getting back to normal.
When people do not have enough calories, staples such as rice and wheat are vital: they provide the most calories per dollar.
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When you log in to FarmLogs, you will see a dashboard that was designed for row crop farms such as corn, wheat, and soybean fields.
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That act ended price supports for common crops such as corn and wheat, encouraging farmers to switch instead to more unusual plantings in response to market demand.
As the accredited port of entry for Iraqi food supplies, Aqaba is now a major trading centre attracting foreign companies such as rice and wheat distributors from Australia.
So far the main drivers of European inflation have been the same as most major developed economies: the surging cost of oil and basic food products such as dairy and wheat.
Much of the missing customer money belonged to farmers, ranchers and other business owners who used MF Global to reduce their risks from the fluctuating prices of commodities such as corn and wheat.
With droughts in Russia, excessive rains in Canada and Pakistan and adverse weather conditions affecting the harvest in the U.S., the U.S. government has cut its forecast for stocks of key crops such as corn, wheat and soybean.
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Since U.S. farmland is scarce and expensive, each additional acre of corn used to produce ethanol is one less that is available for other crops such as soybeans and wheat, which have seen price increases of more than 240% over the past five years.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
Examples cited in the announcement include the presence of substances new to the food supply, allergens presented in an unusual or unexpected way (such as a peanut protein in wheat) or increased levels of toxins found normally in foods.
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